Major Texts:

First Quarter

• “What is an American” by Jean de Crevecoeur
• The Crucible  by Arthur Miller
• Transcendentalist essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Second Quarter

• Transcendentalist essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau cont.
• Nathaniel Hawthorn’s “Young Goodman Brown”
• Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
• Poetry Unit (Walt Whitman,  Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Nikki Giovanni, Wallace Stevens)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Third Quarter

• Langston Hughes & Harlem Renaissance Writing
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• excerpts from Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Fourth Quarter

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz